耶利米书 48
1 论摩押。万军之耶和华—以色列的 神如此说： 尼波有祸了！因变为荒场。 基列亭蒙羞被攻取； 米斯迦蒙羞被毁坏；
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says about Moab: Disaster is coming to the town of Nebo, because it will be destroyed. The town of Kiriathaim will be captured and humiliated; the fortress will be torn down and its people shamed.
2 摩押不再被称赞。 有人在希实本设计谋害她，说： 来吧！我们将她剪除，不再成国。 玛得缅哪，你也必默默无声； 刀剑必追赶你。
No one praises Moab anymore. People in Heshbon are plotting, “We will destroy Moab as a nation. People of the town of Madmen, we will silence you too—you will be attacked by swords and chased down.”
3 从何罗念有喊荒凉大毁灭的哀声：
Listen to the cries from Horonaim: “Violence and terrible destruction!”
4 摩押毁灭了！ 她的孩童发哀声，使人听见。
Moab will be smashed. Hear the little ones crying for help.
5 人上鲁希坡随走随哭， 因为在何罗念的下坡听见毁灭的哀声。
People weep as they go up to Luhith; and as they come down to Horonaim their sad cries at the destruction echo around.
6 你们要奔逃，自救性命， 独自居住，好像旷野的杜松。
Run away! Save yourselves! Be like a scrawny tamarisk tree in the desert!
7 你因倚靠自己所做的和自己的财宝必被攻取。 基抹和属他的祭司、首领也要一同被掳去。
It's because you put your confidence in what you do and what you own that you too will be captured. Your god Chemosh will be taken into exile along with his priests and leaders.
8 行毁灭的必来到各城， 并无一城得免。 山谷必致败落， 平原必被毁坏； 正如耶和华所说的。
The invaders will attack every town; not a single one will escape destruction. The valley will be ruined, and the plain will be destroyed, for the Lord has spoken.
9 要将翅膀给摩押， 使她可以飞去。 她的城邑必致荒凉， 无人居住。 （
Put up gravestones in Moab, because the country will become a wasteland. Its towns will be turned into ruins where no one lives.
10 懒惰为耶和华行事的，必受咒诅；禁止刀剑不经血的，必受咒诅。）
A curse on those who don't do the Lord's work properly. A curse on those who don't use their swords to kill.
11 摩押自幼年以来常享安逸， 如酒在渣滓上澄清， 没有从这器皿倒在那器皿里， 也未曾被掳去。 因此，它的原味尚存， 香气未变。
The people of Moab have been living comfortably since the country was founded. They're like wine that hasn't been disturbed, not poured from one container to another. So the taste and fragrance remains the same. They haven't experienced exile.
12 耶和华说：“日子将到，我必打发倒酒的往她那里去，将她倒出来，倒空她的器皿，打碎她的坛子。
But watch out, the time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will send them “winemakers” who will pour them out like wine. They will empty out the Moabites, and smash them like jars.
13 摩押必因基抹羞愧，像以色列家从前倚靠伯特利的神羞愧一样。
Then the Moabites will feel let down by Chemosh, just as the people of Israel felt let down when they trusted in the golden calf idol at Bethel.
14 你们怎么说： 我们是勇士，是有勇力打仗的呢？
How on earth can you Moabites say, “We're heroes, strong men ready to fight in battle”?
15 摩押变为荒场， 敌人上去进了她的城邑。 她所特选的少年人下去遭了杀戮； 这是君王—名为万军之耶和华说的。
Moab is going to be destroyed and its towns conquered. Its finest young men will be killed, declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
16 摩押的灾殃临近； 她的苦难速速来到。
Moab's doom is about to happen; destruction is rushing down on them.
17 凡在她四围的和认识她名的， 你们都要为她悲伤，说： 那结实的杖和那美好的棍， 何竟折断了呢？
Mourn for them, all you surrounding nations, everyone who knows them! Let others know how the great scepter has been smashed, the rod that once proudly ruled!
18 住在底本的民哪， 要从你荣耀的位上下来， 坐受干渴； 因毁灭摩押的上来攻击你， 毁坏了你的保障。
Come down from your glory and sit on the dusty ground, you who live in Dibon, for Moab's destroyer will come and attack you, destroying your fortresses.
19 住亚罗珥的啊， 要站在道旁观望， 问逃避的男人和逃脱的女人说： 是什么事呢？
Stand at the roadside and watch, you who live in Aroer. Ask the men and women who are running away to escape, “What's happened?”
20 摩押因毁坏蒙羞； 你们要哀号呼喊， 要在亚嫩旁报告说： 摩押变为荒场！
Moab has been humiliated because it has been defeated. Weep and wail! Shout out beside the River Arnon that Moab has been destroyed!
21 “刑罚临到平原之地的何伦、雅杂、米法押、
Punishment has arrived on the towns of the high plain—on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,
22 底本、尼波、伯·低比拉太音、
on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
23 基列亭、伯·迦末、伯·米恩、
on Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
24 加略、波斯拉，和摩押地远近所有的城邑。
on Kerioth, Bozrah, and on all the towns of Moab, whether far away or nearby.
25 摩押的角砍断了，摩押的膀臂折断了。这是耶和华说的。”
Moab's strength is gone; their power has been broken, declares the Lord.
26 “你们要使摩押沉醉，因她向耶和华夸大。她要在自己所吐之中打滚，又要被人嗤笑。
Make the people of Moab drunk, because they defied the Lord. Then they will roll around in their own vomit, as people laugh at them.
27 摩押啊，你不曾嗤笑以色列吗？她岂是在贼中查出来的呢？你每逢提到她便摇头。
Didn't you Moabites used to ridicule the Israelites? But they weren't ever found to be thieves, were they? Yet whenever you talk about them, you shake your heads in contempt.
28 摩押的居民哪， 要离开城邑，住在山崖里， 像鸽子在深渊口上搭窝。
You people living in Moab, run from your towns, go and live among the rocks. Be like a dove nesting on the cliffs at the entrance to a ravine.
29 我们听说摩押人骄傲， 是极其骄傲； 听说他自高自傲， 并且狂妄，居心自大。
We know all about how pompous Moabites are, how extremely proud and conceited they are, arrogantly thinking so highly of themselves.
30 耶和华说： 我知道他的忿怒是虚空的； 他夸大的话一无所成。
I'm well aware of how disrespectful they are, declares the Lord, but it doesn't matter. They make empty boasts, and what they do is just as empty.
31 因此，我要为摩押哀号， 为摩押全地呼喊； 人必为吉珥·哈列设人叹息。
So I will weep for Moab; I will cry out for all the Moabites; I will mourn for the people of Kir-heres.
32 西比玛的葡萄树啊，我为你哀哭， 甚于雅谢人哀哭。 你的枝子蔓延过海， 直长到雅谢海。 那行毁灭的已经临到你夏天的果子 和你所摘的葡萄。
will weep for you, people of the town of Sibmah with its vineyards, more than I weep for the town of Jazer. Your vines have spread to the sea, and all the way to Jazer. But the destroyer has stolen your harvest of summer fruit and grapes.
33 肥田和摩押地的欢喜快乐都被夺去； 我使酒榨的酒绝流， 无人踹酒欢呼； 那欢呼却变为仇敌的呐喊。
There's no more celebration and happiness in Moab's orchards and fields. I have stopped the grape juice flowing from the winepresses. No one shouts for joy as they tread out the grapes. No, their shouts now are not because of joy!
34 “希实本人发的哀声达到以利亚利，直达到雅杂；从琐珥达到何罗念，直到伊基拉·施利施亚，因为宁林的水必然干涸。”
Cries for help reach from Heshbon to Elealeh and all the way to Jahaz. They're shouting out from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah, for even the water in the Nimrim Brook has dried up.
35 耶和华说：“我必在摩押地使那在邱坛献祭的，和那向他的神烧香的都断绝了。
I'm going to finish off those in Moab who sacrifice on the pagan high places and burn incense to their gods, declares the Lord.
36 我心腹为摩押哀鸣如箫，我心肠为吉珥·哈列设人也是如此，因摩押人所得的财物都灭没了。
So I mourn inside like a flute playing a sad song for Moab; like a flute playing a funeral tune for the people of Kir-heres, because they've lost everything of value that they worked for.
37 “各人头上光秃，胡须剪短，手有划伤，腰束麻布。
As signs of their mourning, every head is shaved, every beard is trimmed, every hand has a gash, and every waist is wearing sackcloth.
38 在摩押的各房顶上和街市上处处有人哀哭；因我打碎摩押，好像打碎无人喜悦的器皿。这是耶和华说的。
Everyone is mourning on all the flat roofs and streets of Moab, because I have smashed the country like a jar nobody wants, declares the Lord.
39 摩押何等毁坏！何等哀号！何等羞愧转背！这样，摩押必令四围的人嗤笑惊骇。”
Moab is completely shattered! Listen to them cry! See how the Moabites turn away in shame! All the surrounding nations are horrified at what's happened to the country, and ridicule its people.
40 耶和华如此说： 仇敌必如大鹰飞起， 展开翅膀，攻击摩押。
This is what the Lord says: Watch as an enemy like an eagle swoops down, spreading its wings as it attacks Moab.
41 加略被攻取，保障也被占据。 到那日，摩押的勇士心中疼痛如临产的妇人。
Kirioth has been conquered, and the fortresses captured. At that time Moab's warriors will be as scared as a woman in labor.
42 摩押必被毁灭，不再成国， 因她向耶和华夸大。
Moab will cease to exist as a nation because they defied the Lord.
43 耶和华说：摩押的居民哪， 恐惧、陷坑、网罗都临近你。
You people living in Moab, what's waiting for you are terror, traps, and snares, declares the Lord.
44 躲避恐惧的必坠入陷坑； 从陷坑上来的必被网罗缠住； 因我必使追讨之年临到摩押。 这是耶和华说的。
You will run away in terror and fall into a trap, and when you climb out of the trap, you'll be caught in a snare. I will do this to the Moabites at the time when they're punished, declares the Lord.
45 躲避的人无力站在希实本的影下； 因为有火从希实本发出， 有火焰出于西宏的城， 烧尽摩押的角和哄嚷人的头顶。
Those who run away will be left defenseless in Heshbon where they went for protection, because fire blazes out from Heshbon, a fire from where Sihon once reigned. It burns up the whole country of Moab and its defiant people.
46 摩押啊，你有祸了！ 属基抹的民灭亡了！ 因你的众子都被掳去， 你的众女也被掳去。
What a disaster has come to you Moabites! The people of Chemosh have been wiped out. Your sons and daughters have been taken prisoner and have gone into exile.
47 耶和华说： 到末后，我还要使被掳的摩押人归回。 摩押受审判的话到此为止。
But even so, later on, I will bring the people of Moab back from exile, declares the Lord. This is the end of the description of the judgment on Moab.
